In case you were wondering when the GOP was going to start making good on Mitch McConnell’s promise to do everything possible to sabotage the Obama administration I think the answer is, “they have.” Senator Jon Kyl, the GOP leader on negotiations with the White House over the START treaty has backed out of his deal to approve the treaty signed by the President and Medvedev. He declined to be interviewed when asked by the Times, he offers only a one paragraph explanation on his web site that says nothing, and the only thing I’ve read or heard all day as a rationale says they want more money than the extra $4 billion they squeezed out of Obama already.
So apparently stopping nuclear war is not as important as a Republican victory in ’12, and we’ll now have an even bigger budget hole to plug. I can hardly wait to see what’s next.
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Tom Freidman had an interesting piece today about Anderson Cooper challenging Michele Bachmann’s assertion on his show that the President’s trip to China was costing $200 million a day. I wish he’s taken her on on the air, but at least it got challenged the next day.
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There were five more U.S. KIA soldiers listed in the paper today. The oldest was 28. There were two 20-year-olds. But at least we got a full and spirited debate from our political leaders this election cycle.
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